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Title: Advanced flywheel-storage system

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6533722

This paper reports on an efficiency measurements program conducted on a 1/10-scale prototype flywheel energy-storage unit employing magnetic bearings; on the design of an improved configuration for a full-scale, 20-kWh residential flywheel unit; and on an in-progress effort to test a GFE advanced composite rotor on magnetic suspension.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Lexington (USA). Lincoln Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ET20279
OSTI ID:
6533722
Report Number(s):
DOE/ET/20279-157; CONF-810833-10; ON: DE82000664
Resource Relation:
Conference: Mechanical, magnetic, and underground energy storage 1981 annual contractors' review meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 24 Aug 1981; Other Information: 1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English